Nelson
by Sam Marks

Highlights

Male

Present Day Interior Set

Synopsis

Nelson is the story of a young man caught between two worlds.

By day, he works as a low-level assistant to a film talent agent.

By night, Nelson is the camera man for an underground, gang-related videotape series.

As the videos become increasingly dangerous and popular, Nelson develops an overwhelming obsession with a C-List actress.

Eventually, Nelson's two worlds collide with disturbing, unsettling results.

The play is a darkly comic look at the guilt dream of a man trying to find something authentic in a world of two very different kinds of film.

Press Reviews

"A funny-creepy play by Sam Marks"
— Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times

"Marks continues to offer a fresh urban voice. Nelson grabs your ear from the outset with its halting staccato street talk, and in the fine office scenes, Nelson’s racist boss attacks him with a Mamet-like patter of disdaining sarcasm."
— Time Out New York